Kyle Funk, a history teacher at Oak Hills, shows a photo that he took of Birkenau, also known as the Auschwitz II concentration camp, on his recent trip to Germany and Poland.

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Ryan Clark

For Kyle Funk, a social studies teacher at Oak Hills High School, his trip took him to Germany and Poland for an intensive educational experience about the Holocaust.

Funk, of Colerain Township, recently returned from a two-week trip to Germany and Poland. Eleven teachers visited concentration camps, ghetto sites and Holocaust memorials as a part of the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous' 2012 European Study Program. The program's visits and lectures are designed to create a deeper understanding of the Holocaust, which teachers can then pass on to ...